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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19
PITH AND POINT.

Followers sometimes feel the want
u a leader; sometimes a leader feels
the want of a great lot of followers.
1t is never too late to mend; but .
man can not expect to have button
sewed on much after midnight.
A good quality of celluloid is now
being made from potatoes. Soon bull
lets will be made from the railway
sandwich.
There are great many windy
patriots who mistake the echo of their
own tongue-clatter for the voice OF
fame. - Washington Hatchet.
In the Alps.-Guide--'If the ladies
will only stop talking, your honor may
hear the roating of the waterfall across
the valley.-Fitegcnde Biatter.
1t does not change the weather to
complain about it, but there is little
satisfaction IN good vigorous kick
once in a while. -EIBItTn Gazette.
Their influence goes on forever
So when a great man dies,
For years beyond our ken
The light he leaves behind him
Lies on the paths Of men.
-LongtclloU.
1t is possible now to construct
sewing machine in one minute, or, let
r- saw. in one thirtieth of the time ii
takcs to find needle when man
wants u shirt button sewed on and IS
late for tis train.
Mrs. Grundy says: Boys now, to
a gfca. extent, take the places OF men
in New York society" Mrs. Grundy
must not complain. since boys were
created for just this very thing.-St
Adams Messenger.
If there is an instance of sublime
faith more striking than that shown by
J a bald-headed man when he buys
| hair restorative from a bald-headed
barber, our attention has never been
called to it-Phitadclphia Call
We have a lawyer in this county
| who, several years ago, in the course
of n plea, said: Gentlemen OF the
| iury, YOU should bear in mind the
Lords Prayer, which says, DO unto
others as YOU would that they should
do unto you. '"-COoperstoon Repu6-
iGan.
They were playing an old fashioned
game and having just the best kind OF
time, when just as pretty Miss Tat
| ting cried out, Button, button, who :
| got the buttone' old Marriedman cast
a gloom over the game by drawing a
nail from his pocket and saying, Here
it IS Burdette.
Steel guns of the largest calibre
will only stand two hundred rounds;
after that that they must be con-
demned. A plain man of ordinary
calibre will stand from eighteen thou
sand to twenty thousand rounds This
illustrates natures superiority over
art.-Sdn Francisco Examiner.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

jim JONES, colored, was hanged in
Bowie county, Tex, on the 18th, for the
murder of Cate Hicks, August 6, 1886.
Jones was twenty years old, and was
known as a tough character and success
full gambler in Texarkana.
POLICEMAN JULIAN ARNOLD, of Alexan-
dria, Va, was shot dead, and Earnest L.
Padgett wounded, on the 10th in Alexan-
dria, while attempting to arrest two men
whom they overheard planning a robbery.
THE Sunday laws were rigidly enforced
in New York on the 18th. In consequence,
saloon keepers on the New Jersey side
did q rushing business. Thousands of
people, Germans especially, crowded the
ferry boats on their way to enjoy music
and beer.
AT Oxford, Miss, on the 14th, in the case
of Bob Lamar the jury acquitted the
prisoner. Lamar has once been convicted
of murder and sentenced to death. A new
trial was obtained, and he was sentenced
to imprisonment for life. The supreme
court sent it back for a new trial, which
resulted in acquittal.
THE assessors of the Cotton Belt Levee
Board of Arkansas have made an assess
ment of $3.50 per acre on all lands in cul-
tivation and 10 cents per acre on all other
lands.
AT Willis, Texas, on the 18th, body of
armed men took possession of the jail,
where Andrew McGehee and ]. b. Walker
were confined charged with murder, and
shot the two prisoners to death.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE PORTER
AL nh
munication from the governor of Tennes-
see, the mayor of Nashville, Gen. w. H.
Jackson, and other prominent citizens OF
Tennessee, requesting him to urge the
President and his cabinet to visit Nash
Vile on the 9th of May, to witness the
Inauguration of important industrial en-
terprises.
A RACE from New York to San Fran
cisco, a distance of 1900 miles, has been
arranged between the clipper ships Semi
mole and Charmer.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has
signed the high license bill. The law
levies tax of 500 in cities of $4,000 pop
ulation and over, 800 for smaller cities,
and 500 for boroughs.
AT the session of the Supreme Lodge of
the Knights of Honor the proposition to
make the offices of Supreme Chaplain,
Guide, Guard and Sentinel appointive in
stead of elective was discussed and passed.
proposition to abolish the Supreme
Trustees was defeated.
ALBERT TURNER, one of the murderers
Of Jennie Bowman at Louisville, KY, has
been indicted by the grand jury, tried
under his confession of guilt, and SEN
On ced to be hanged Friday, July !.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19
FRAUDULENT JOURNALISM
The Proprietor of a Couple of Chicago Pa
pers Arrested For Misnsing the Mails.

The Proprietor of a Couple of Chicago Pa
pers Arrested For Misusing the Mails.
CHICAGO, May AT. s. Gardner and
wife, proprletors of the Farm Journal and
the Farm Album, were before United States
Commissioner Perine this morning charged
with fraudulently using the mails. Gard
ner is said to have advertised that he would
send the Farm Journal tor year, together
with a handsome book of engravings, on re-
ceipt of IS cents. When one sent the As cents
he received aJanuary copy of the paper, to-
gether with book full of stock engravings,
the total value being about cents. He also
received circulars showing how he could
easily make an enormous salary by getting
up clubs. Every days mail used to bring
Gardner from $50 to 200 letters containing
the names of subscribers including from
two TO twenty. Another feature was the
promise in the advertisement that when
the subscription list reached certain num-
ber he would lend to any one subscriber
money at four per cent. number Of wit
nesses from all sections of the country
were present and testified for the Govern
ment. post-office inspector estimates
the receipts Of the firm at something like
SO, 600.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19

IT is learned that the United States
steamship Alliance, which left New
York November last, with orders to
join the South Atlantic squadron at
Rio Janeiro, by way of the Mediter-
rancan and the Cape of Good Hope, is
under orders to seize the schooner
Emma Jane if found on the high seas
or demand her if she be found in a
neutral port. These orders have been
issued because the Government is in
formed that the Emma Jane after hav-
ing been fitted out in the United States
as whaler was taken by her master to
the island of Johanna, contrary to the
orders of her owners, and sold to DR..
Wilson, n former naval officer, but now
a wealthy planter on said island. 1t is
charged that DR.. Wilson employed her
to carry sugar and it is suspected has
engaged her in the slave trade.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19

TIE President has ratified the con-
vention making the United States a
member of the International Union for
the protection Of industrial property. "
BY thi. action of the United States
American citizens have the privilege,
not hitherto enjoyed, Of obtaining valid
patents in any of the countries which
are members of the convention any
time within the period of seven months
after they have obtained their Ameri-
can patent. The countries of the in
dustrial union are Belgium, Brazil,
France, Great Britain, Guatemala,
Holland, Norway, Portugal Salvador,
San Domingo, Servia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Tunis and the United
States,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE strife between Austrian Germans
and CZechs continues. A violent scene oc-
Cured the other day in the Unterhaus be-
tween German and Czech deputies. Prof.
Maasen was hooted at the university.
Fierce street fights have taken place at
Prague between German students and q
Czech mob.
ENGLISH Congregationalist ministers
have adopted resolution protesting
against the Irish Coercion bill, demanding
that the Irish shall be treated with justice
and urging the Government to adopt pol
icy of Cancellation in dealing with the Irish
question.
GENERAL HENRY A. CLARK, U. s. A, re
tired, died IN Washington recently, aged
sixty-seven.
SECRETARY BAYARD has sent a telegram
to Minister Manning stating that the Gov
ernment would view with deep regret the
execution of the Mexican officers, and in
structing him to say that a mitigation
would be regarded by the United States
with favor,
Montreal on the 11th and delivered his
speech against Lord Lansdowne in the
evening. Resolutions were passed de-
downes estates in Ireland.
THE President appointed James w. Hyatt,
of Connecticut, treasurer of the United
States to succeed Conrad N. Jordan, re-
signed
THE Missouri Legislature convened in
special session at jefferson City on the
1lth.
THE condition of Justice Woods of the e
Supreme Court has grown worse since his
return to Washington. He was reported
lying critically i'll at his residence and his
death may occur at any moment. He was
suffering from dropsy and complication
of diseases.
A LARGE number Of distinguished Masons
went to Baltimore on the 1lth to assist at
the centennial of the Grand Lodge of Mary
land.
GENERAL GARFIELD's statue was unveiled
in the presence of the President and dis
tinguished company at Washington on the
12th. The statue is of bronze, designed by
j. q. A. Ward, and is the gift OF the Army
of the Cumberland.
A MONUMENT to General John Sedgwick
was dedicated May ~ on the spot where he
was killed, Spottsylvanla Court House, Va.
PARNELLs health became worse on his
journey from Ireland to London. By bis
physicians advice Mr.. Parnell proceeded to
| Bournemouth.
A New YORK paper of the 18th stated
| that Mrs General Grant was suffering from
malignant diphtheria.
SIR ARTHUR HAvELoCK, Governor of Ma
tai, has been instructed to proclaim Zulu
land, excepting the portion constituting the
new Boer republic, British possession.
The new Boer republic occupies the west
ern part of Zululand, but does not reach the
coast It's area ls 500 square miles. The
! raDital Is NrN held.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19
CHICAGO SHUTDOWN.

Ten Thousand Sfsn In the Chicago Build
ttp Trade IdIe-Tho Employer Ulti-
matum.
CurcAGo. MAY 14-The following notice
vas mailed 10 each member OF the Master
Masons' and Builders Association yestcr-
day
CHICAGO. Msy 13.-In pursuance OF the fof
lowing resolution adopted at a meeting OF the
association held Tuesday evening, may 10 you
are hereby requested to stop aD work Frlday
night, May 13, and report to the executive com
mittee ''ResolUed, That we, the Master
Masops and Builders Association, do hereby
biedpe ourselves to refuse TO comply with
The demands made by the Bricklayers and
Stonemasons' Unions for payment OF wages
on Saturday ard we furthermore bind ourselves
on our honor to pay every second Monday or
Tuesday, and that In case the brchlayers or
stonemasons refuse TO work or strike on any
members Of the Master Masons and buhders
Asesa+sts6n that we shall shut down all our
WORK until tilf stvike is over" You are hereby
requested to stop ali work Friday night, May
"a and report to the executive committee. Re
spectfully. -,,.-.
JOSEPH DowNEY, President
All building Operrtions unocr the control
of contractors who are members I! the
Master Masons' Association Oi e"icag"
were shut down last night so far as th"
bricklayers aud stOnemasons are concerned
Il Is estmated that fully 10000 workmen
are now idle I'm the building trades of this
city as the result III che strikes or the lock
out. The general Shutdown in8agurated
last evening is the outgrowtb If series
of strikes in the building trades, sn1
is in the nature ~ sn attempt by the
employers to force a Datt,s with the
workmen and secure a lasting peace tmr-
| ing the season. The carpenters, painters
g1id ether men, it Is announced, will keep
| at work as long as there is any thing to do
but this will not help them much, for prac-
tically all work will in three OF four days
be blocked by the lockout Of the BRICK
layers and m&sors The employers claim tn
have established a peTfNct embargo on
building material during the locEcpt' The
| North Side Brick Manufacturers Associa'
ton at meeting yesterday decided to shut
down Wednesday. They employ 800 men,
| and this force Will be add1l to the idle
army Of 10000 The sufferers 50 far are
| Composed of about 1900 bricklavers, 3Oo0
hodcarriers, 1900 carpenters, painters and
plumbers and /, 500 miscellaneous mechanics
| and laborers. An uproarious meeting oi
the Bricklayers' Union was held last night
but no action of any kind was taken either
to rescind the demand for Saturday pay
day or to formally declare strike.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19
DEFYlNG EARTHQUAKES.
Methods of Constructing Houses Capable
of Resisting Heavy UpheavaIs.

Methods of Constructing Houses eap@o'e
of Resisting Heavy UpheavaIs.
4 curious paper was read by Prof
Milne at a meeting of the SeismologicaI
Society of Toxic, reporting results OBJ
tanned from seismic survey of the
ground in the immediate neighborhood
of Ills house, with the view to discover,
if possible, the best method OF con-
structing houses or buildings capable
of resisting earthquakes, so as to sus-
tain the least damage in themselves
Three different ways appear to have
been suggested. by which it was
Thought probable that the buildings
would escape the effects of the motion
produced by the earthquake wave. The
first was to make 4 careful seismic sur
vev of the ground, and after that, to
select a spot where there would be
relatively but little motion-though
how this desirable result was to be OBJ
tanned we are not informed. The Sec
ond plan was to build in deep
pit, the walls not touching the
sides of the pit; but by what
means this was to save the
house. 1t is difficult to see, as, If an
earth-wave passed over the place, the
pit itself as we'll as the house would
necessarily be effected. A third method
is still proposed, and that is, where the
ground is soft, light, one-storled
house should be constructed OF either
wood or iron, which should be rested
on layer of cast-iron shot-an idea,
possibly, to allow the house to move
over the shot from right to left or back
ward and forward. and so escape being
overthrown. But still, very heavy
wave would upheave, not the house
and its foundation only, but the whole
space of the earth round about it; and
if that was so. the house, shot, pit,
and all, must surely be overthrown in
a heap together. The theory how
ever, is both curious and interesting.
and may be well worth the examina-
ton and consideration of the scientific
world, in spite of the difficulties and
doubts which appear to surround the
! ouestion. - Chambers Journal
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19

In Buncomb County, N. c., recently.
a party of hunters discovered a den of
wild dogs. A woman met the party
and told strange story. saying that
few days before she had been attacked
in her house bywhat she thought must
be wild dogs. At the time the doors
were closed, but the desperate animals
made attempt after attempt to enter.
The next day after their appearance at
the house the dogs were again seen by
the woman, who was outside. She
fed to the house for shelter The hun
ters spent hours in searching for the
dogs, and finally found them in reg
ular den in wild and rugged noun
tain. The hunters dogs advanced and
all three were killed in few minutes
by the ferocious. wild dogs. Calvin
Jones and Charles Harkins climbed to
the den with Winchester rifles in their
hands. The ferocious dogs came out
and the hunters killed five as the dogs
rushed on them. Next day the hunters
returned and killed the remainder
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19
No Harm Done.

WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator Vest
called at the White House yesterday morn
ing for the first time since the second term
story was started. The President laughed
quite heartily over the Senator's faux pas
in the various interviews credited to him
on the subject of second term, and re-
marked that he knew the story started
with the Missouri Senator, because it con-
tanned statement that he never made to
any one else but him, and that was "that
nobody but his wife would believe him
when he said that he was not u candidate
for a second term" After talking the mat
ter over pleasantly, both concluded that nc
serious harm had been done.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19

A RAILWAY is to be built across South
America, from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific. Three years ago the Argentine
Government constructed line of road,
standard gauge, from Buenos Ayres to
the City of Mendosea, in the Andes,
on the boundary of Chill, within 160
miles of Santiago, the capital of the
other nation, which was already con-
herted with Valparaiso, the greatest OF
The Pacific ports. 1t is intended to ex-
tend this road through the Andes. and
complete the gap of 100 miles, thus
connecting Buenos Ayres with Val
paraiso, and forming line from coast
to coast. The entire line runs
through the Andes, chain of noun.
tains 10000 feet high.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
Forest Fires In Michigan Causing Great
Dana ge and Disasters.

Damage and Disasters.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 4.-Specials fe-
ceived last night from dozen points in the
Northern Michigan peninsula and the Wis
consin counties adjacent are to the effect
that the forest fires are increasing, The
whole peninsula is envelOpe1 in smoke and
telegraph wires are badly crippled. Near
Palms, Mich, fires are raging fearfully and
fears are entertained that the town will
be burned. Though surrounded with green
grass the farmers ON the ciearings will lose
every thing. A large amount OF pine and
cedar Is burned. Dispatches from Salt
junction say men are being driven from the
camps by the fires on the coast. The fire is
raging fiercely and there is no telling the
amount of the damage. Near Newberry
the fires are dying out but the smoke is in
tolerable. Negaunee sends word that the
fires are spreading to the north
and east, entering vast tract
of valuable pine, the damage al
ready done amounting to $4,000 Near Cas-
cade valuable strip of hard timber Is now
burning. At Baraga the smoke is getting
unbearable, and it looks as though the fires
were approaching the town. On the west
end of the old Marquette, Houghton. and
Ontonagon road the fires are subsiding but
the damage is large. Great damage has
also been done along the Northwestern
road from Memoninee north.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19
Storm In Nebraska.

OMAHA, Neb., May IA severe storm OF
wind and rain swept over Eastern Nebras-
ka from south to north last evening doing
considerable damage in this city. A num-
Der of small houses were wrecked and the
lumber yards torn to pieces. Reports from
various points indicate that the destruction
of property viii reach several thousand
dollars. AT Blue Springs, 100 miles south
of here, w. H. Ruinbaugh, janitor at the
school house, was fatally injured, and Mrs.
Will Mathews was struck by lightning and
instantly killed. The school house and
several other buildings were blown down.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19
Chief Packing Center.

New YORK, May l4.-Bradstreet says:
'The Kansas City packing houses, with
greatly increased capacity, are running on
full time, placing that city first as pack
ing center. A pronounced feature is the
almost universal decline of bank clearing
totals at large centers for the week ended
to-day. Money is easier atNew York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Chicago and New Or
leans, but tight in Kansas City, where, as
at Milwaukee and Cincinnati, the demand
from the country is still felt.n
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19

THE Secretary of War has finally
approved of the selection Of a site for
the new hotel at Old Point Comfort, to
be built by John Chamberlin, by au-
thority of Congress. The cost of the
hotel will not be less than S500,000.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19

THE new melinite shells with which
the French Government has been en-
perimenting were not powerful enough
to pierce even the iron of an old style
war vessel,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19

THERE are one hundred and eight
American artists represented in the
Paris salon this year, and twenty OF
them are women.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19
CURRENT COMMENT.

THE President and Mrs. Cleveland
visited Mount Vernon for the first time
on Nav 13.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-07-06
relsdo,a arsat Wine fun.

Work was begun In 1888 on the great
wine tun of Toledo, o., but the solid
American oak of which it was built was
drying in q kiln for six years prior to
that. Its oaken slaves are twenty-one
feet long and six inches square. In the
rough, six Of them formed q load fora
two horse team. With the utmost nicely
they were put in place until, as a whole,
they measured over sixty feet in circum-
ference. Through the center Of the tun,
where it curves outward in q huge swell,
II measures twenty-one feet; the diameter
at the ends is eighteen feet. It contains
$4,000 gallons Of dry wine. To with
stand the enormous pressure OF this bulk,
three iron rods are carried from end TO
end, where they are riveted in oaken
beams Of great size and strength. The
hoops are of iron. There are fourteen Of
them and they weigh three tons. Each
hoop is six inches broad and about q third
Of an inch in thickness. They are well
groomed hoops, and shine as IL in con
slant contact with an emery wheel.
But everything about the great tun be-
tokens the great care that is taken Of It.
Its oaken surface is polished to such a
degree that the sun loves to creep in
through the prison like windows and
dance upon its shining bulk. The huge
brass spigot glitters like gold fresh from
the coiner's hand. The oaken platform
that faces its tremendous head, and the
oaken stairway that winds around the
base and enables the visitor to look down
upon the mammoth, glisten under fire.
quent coats of varnish. A blow upon
this iron ribbed body makes no impress
sion unless the ear be placed close to the
wood; then the sound Is like the last gasp
of a thunder clap. Days and days were
occupied in filling it with catawba made
from grapes that grow on islands in Put
in Bay, where Commodore Perry taught
John Bull a lesson some years ago. And
when the tun was full, when SO, 200
gallons Of wine had been poured into the
vast interior, there was much rejoicing
in the immediate vicinity, and all who
witnessed the completion Of the process
felt in duty bound to drink to the health
Of the Toledo tun, and to do % in such
unstinted measure that the occasion ID
likely never to be forgotten by those who
participated.-Cor New York Times q,